Speakers
Workshop Session
Alycia Welch, one of the leading experts in the U.S. on the treatment of women in custody, will outline a framework for a gender-responsive approach to corrections and will discuss the ways in which the approach promotes desistance. She will discuss women’s pathways to incarceration and describe how women experience incarceration differently than men. She will also explore the meaning of “gender-responsiveness” and explain why, at the core of a gender-responsive approach, re-entry must begin at entry. Drawing on examples of these approaches across the U.S., Alycia will recommend more effective strategies for operating and managing detention facilities and delivering programs and services that corrections agencies could take to ameliorate the harms women experience in custody; create a better work environment for staff; and achieve better outcomes for the women, their families, and the community.